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Michael Jordan: Greatest of All Time There have been many great basketball players to play the game, but one of them separates himself from the rest. The player is Michael Jordan. He has done many amazing things in his basketball career. He is a good person, a great basketball athlete, and loves to play the game of basketball. Michael Jordan is the best basketball player ever. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 17, 1963. Michael and his family moved to a rural part in North Carolina

having tonight,” began the announcer, “The three-point contest will be cramped this year because it contains a good amount of players who can really spray the ball,” continued Announcer, “then following the three-point contest we have the world-famous dunk contest which should be fun, and finally to put the cherry on top of the tournament we have our own annual all-star game!” All this excitement seemed to have a nix effect on Matthew. His face was brimming with confidence. Matthew wasn’t shaken by

When listening to a song no one ever pauses the music and thinks about the true meaning behind it. Several songs have meanings but some of the artists produce those songs to create an awareness. “Pumped up Kicks” by Foster the People is a song the band created to raise awareness of school shootings. I have always listened to this song, but I never found out the story behind it until this year. Listening to this song now has changed my perspective on listening to music. Songs have a reason for everything

heard of it from other people, but never imagines it might happen to them as well. Irrespective of their presumptions, I ended up encountering many new places and experiences in just 6 months into this country. In this short span, I saw a tennis grand slam final, surfed, skied, gambled and even flew a plane for the first time visiting 6 main US cities across the country. Unlike what I saw in all Hollywood movies, New York City wasn’t just about tall skyscrapers, busy subways and glittering downtown.

People pretend it doesn’t exist they deny that after all these years’ racism isn’t happening but it is still happening and very much alive. Tennis prides itself on being innovators. People think tennis is on the right track by giving equal prize money to both male and females and giving both genders equal opportunity in television and media coverage but the fact remains that tennis wouldn’t fully be there until they take that one step and drop the racism. This may seem like an impossible task but

I was born on August 19th, 1934 in New York City, NY as Richard Raskind, the son of David Raskind and Sadie Muriel Bishop. I was also the younger brother to my sister, Michael. My parents both had their M.D.s, my father being an orthopedic surgeon and my mother a psychiatrist. Growing up my mother was the more dominant one in our family. She allowed me to dress up in my sisters clothing. As I got older, I began to become sexually confused. I confronted my mother about this and she prescribed psychiatric

The world of tennis breathed a heavy sigh of discontent, as a Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer US Open battle once again did not materialize. Nevertheless, don’t worry; tennis enthusiasts should secure their Australian Open tennis tickets early, because rivals seem to meet “down under”. However, what was even more impressive was what happened in the women’s bracket in New York. Tennis may be on the verge of the next American surge, with some resistance from the elder stateswomen. Australian Open Tennis

I was like this until one of my favorite teachers, Ms.Secko taught me lessons that I will never forgot. She taught me confidence and character. One day, Ms.Secko assigned the class a project on slam poetry. I didn’t even know what a slam poem was until she explained it to us. A slam poem was a poem that was memorized and spoken in front of an audience. As soon as I heard those words, my heart trembled a little. The project was composed of several parts. First, you had to pick a poem that

Interesting Facts About Tennis You Might Not Know That Will Blow Your Mind Tennis is a fantastic sport, watched and played by millions of people around the world. Kids dream of becoming players like Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. TV sets worldwide tune in whenever tournaments like the French Open and Davis Cup happen. It’s a global phenomenon, and one of the world’s most-followed and played sports. However, tennis us more than what you see on the court. The sport’s history and everything

SOUTH AFRICAN SLAM POETRY Healing and entertaining people through rhythmic storytelling are the corner stone of slam poetry. Slam poetry is a type of type poetry where people read their poems without props, costumes or music (A Brief Guide to slam poetry. 2004). It is usually original work that talks about themes and subject that people can relate to. Invented in the 1980s by a Chicago construction worker named March Smith, it started as a form of storytelling and they used rhythm to make it entertaining